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Writing prompts brought to you by the assholes who dump garbage on our road. 

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Cosimo I de’ Medici didn’t want to walk To work over the smell of blood. So goldsmiths replaced the butchers.

From the Winter issue, Sylvie Baumgartel’s poem “The Ponte Vecchio.”

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Lovely to see this poem being passed around a bit. Thanks Guernica!

Alison Smith

Like a pair of cats, sexed. Lesbian said everyone but us. We swung Lycra-packed thighs over loaded crossbars. We ferried into America on the pitch of the same folksong. Our nervous joke, Louisiana’s downhill all the way. West, our first direction, was sameness unraveling. ...

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“When you thank someone, aren’t you seizing the moral authority? By reminding them of their power, aren’t you asserting your own?”

Sadie Stein on Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca and portraits of shyness in literature.

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Lovely.

I’m very excited about working in a new style for this next book. these are some Parisian artist characters. blue and purplish and then there will be warm yellow fields of Iowa.

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A new poem in Guernica.

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“I think art has a right—not an obligation—to be difficult if it wishes.”

Geoffrey Hill (via theparisreview)

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Fascinating vispo by Helen Hajnoczky. In conversation with Gary Barwin about her project, Magyarazni: https://jacket2.org/commentary/beyond-floral-tradition-folk-art-hungarian-and-visual-poem

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great letraset work by derek beaulieu

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Writing life.

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One of my favourite South Shore/Halifax people! DJ Regalia.

“I am turning 27, this means I am on the brink of my champagne birthday. I am looking forward as for most of my life I somehow believed I would die at 25. I realize now that was a recognition of the reality that we are always shedding skins and growing new ones.”  -Alia, 26

Tea With Me

Tea with me! —> celia@celiamoase.com

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Tōhoku Japanese Earthquake Sculpture by Luke Jerram. 

About the piece:

This sculpture was made to contemplate the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. To create the sculpture a seismogram of the earthquake, was rotated using computer aided design and then printed in 3 dimensions using rapid prototyping technology. The artwork measures 30cm x 20cm and represents 9 minutes of the earthquake.

Look for it soon at the Jerwood Space in London for a show called Terra. The show will also include his fantastic virus sculptures.

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Oh, that rooster should weep. Art by my little bro who's more than a little awesome.

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A childhood fav.

Dorrie the little witch with her cat, Gink. Illustration from one of the Dorrie books written and illustrated by Patricia Coombs.

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Sudbury, 1998. More photos here.